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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How to use fixit to get DOS and 386BSD on same drive? Date: 14 Oct 1992 09:13:24 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1bgobkINN35n@Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Oct13.094247.837@altair.selu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <1992Oct13.094247.837@altair.selu.edu>, zmw@altair.selu.edu (Mike Whisenhunt zmw@selu.edu) writes: > I have retrieved and created the fixit diskette, but could someone > point me to some documentation or describe how I can use the fixit program > to place the disklabel at the proper place within the 80MB partition? Thanks! 0. insert fixit.fs diskette and boot from same 0.5 run fsck on /dev/rfd0a 1. make floppy writeable 2. disklabel wd0 > /tmp/dlwd0 3. vi /tmp/dlwd0 and edit partition table 4. disklabel -R -r wd0 /tmp/dlwd0 /usr/mdec/wdboot /usr/mdec/bootwd *** note: I may have reversed the order of the last two parameters. use *** the 512-byte file first, then the longer one, in that order 5. sync 6. shutdown 7. remove diskette, hit key on prompt to boot from hd 8. run (DOS 5.0) fdisk /mbr if you encounter problems with 386bsd partition not recognized 9. good luck Cheers, Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV